RIDE THE RAILS WITH CHRIS GUENZLER!

Chris' railroad mileage now stands at: 1,558,017.8 rail miles or 2,512,017.93 kilometers as of 12/16/2018

Chris going 152 MPH on Acela Express First Class.

Chris has ridden over 1,558,000.0 miles - that is equal to over 64.91 times around the world! He has
ridden trains in all
50 states and has traveled on every Amtrak route at least twice, plus all the trains
of Canada's Via Rail as well as every
intercity route in Canada. In Mexico he has done Copper Canyon many
times plus some other special places. Here are
a few of the milestones that Chris has done: He hit his
100,000th mile on the Ferrocarril Pacifico at Lujan, in the Mexican
state of Sonora, he reached 250,000
miles on Amtrak train 580 near Irvine, California, and when he got to 500,000 miles
he was on Amtrak
Train 11 at mile post 256.8 on the Union Pacific's Coast Line in California on
On August 28, 2002 he
passed 700,000 miles 14.1 miles west of Albuquerque, New Mexico. On May 26, 2003 at
MP 178 east of Santa Ana
he passed 750,000 rail miles. On April 25, 2004 he was on the Southwest Chief and
passed 800,000 miles just west of the Metrolink
West Corona Station. On February 20, 2005 he passed 850,000
miles at MP 215.6 on Surfliner 785 on the San Diego
Sub. His 900,000 miles was passed aboard the Southwest
Chief Train 4 on the BNSF Seligman Sub at MP 369.9 on
November 26, 2005. His 950,000.0 miles was passed
at MP 200.9 on the Metrolink San Diego Sub on 8/29/06. On
April 27, 2007 at MP 425.5 on the BNSF Marceline
Sub at the Missouri River Bridge at Sibley Missouri aboard the Southwest Chief, Chris passed
his One
Millionth Rail Mile ridden. On April 7, 2008 as Chris stepped off the Southwest Chief at the La Plata,
Missouri
Amtrak Station he reached his One Millionth Amtrak Mile ridden! On September 7, 2008 Chris
passed his 1,100,000.0
Rail Mile on Surfliner 571 passing under Interstate 5 west of Irvine at MP 183.2
on the Metrolink San Diego Sub. On
December 16, 2009 he reached his 2,000,000.0 Kilometer as well as his
1,200,000.0 Rail Mile at Milepost 166.2 on the
Metrolink San Diego Sub at the Orangethrope Grade Crossing
in Anaheim. On July 1, 2010 Chris passed his 1,250,000.0
Rail Mile 2.7 miles west of WB Jct at Milepost
391.4 of the BNSF Marceline Sub in Missouri. On May 19, 2011 on the
Lakeshore Limited he passed his
1,300,000.0 Rail Mile 2.5 miles west of Kirksville, New York on the CSX Mohawk Sub.
On July 1, 2012 on
the Southwest Chief at the crossing of Magnolia Avenue in the City of Riverside he passed his
1,350,000.0
Rail Mile.
He passed his 1,400,000.0 rail mile at MP 222.7 Oceanside Blvd in Oceanside, CA on
November 3, 2014. On July 1, 2015 he recompleted riding the entire Amtrak System aboard train 174 from
Norfolk to Washington, DC. At the NS/CSX connection when Chris reached the mainline switch onto the CSX
mainline that was the moment of completion. On the night
of April 7, 2016 Chris passed his 1,450,000 rail
mile 1.6 miles north of Elma, Virginia at MP 137.2 aboard the Crescent. Now on September 9, 2017 Chris got
his 1,500,000 Rail Mile as he stepped off of Pacific Surliner 1567 at his home station of Santa Ana,
California. Chris finished the Amtrak system again when he stepped off Northeast Regional train 171 in
Roanoke on July 26,2018.